Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-06-02
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

The I'M versity class of engineers is sur
veying near Charlevoix.
national bank with $50 0C0 capital has
been organized in Negaunee.
Ann Arbor expects to have a free deliv-
cry mail service about June 10
The Lowell manufacturing company is
turning out about 100 cutters day.
c. IL. Hackley OF Muskegon, has pur-
cha ed 43, 600 acres of land in Louisiana for
$4,000
Lyman Davenport, a farmer living near
Saline, f.ll dead while crossing a field the
other day
The public schools at Fowlerville have
been closed to guard against a threatened
siege of diphtheria.
John Clay, jr., who WIS shot by Grant
Challeuder near Grand Ledge some time
ago. died on the 10th inst.
Chang Ball. Chinese laundryman Of
Grand Rapids, has declared his intentions
of becoming an American citizen.
John Moien got into an alteration with
Charles Wallace in an IshpemiDg saloon,
the other night, and shot him dead.
The state signal service office at Lansing
will be made a full reporting station in
the United States service after June I.
The wool market in most places In the
state opens at from % to 2S cents a pound
for washed and IS and 10 for unwashed.
The Custer Guards of Grand Rapids, are
the recipients OF much praise for their
work at the national competitive drill.
Contributions for the Lake Linden suf-
ferers are forming all over the state. 1t is
estimated that about $4,000 is needed
Immediately.
Thos Cronk, an employee in n saw mill in
ST. Ignace, was struck by slab the other
morning and received injuries which
caused his death.
Louis Buchner, who has been on trial in
Alpena for killing Edward Morris, at a
charivari in Long Rapids last Christmas
has just been acquitted.
Only one of the bodies of the five Young
men drowned near Petoskey, has been re-
covered. TIE under current has probably
taken them into the lake.
The planing.mill, dry kiln and 100000 feet
of lumber owned by A. Linton & Sons OF
East Saginaw, were burned on the after
noon Of the 2sth ult Loss about $4,000.
The reunion of the former pupils Of the
| institution for tho deaf and dumb will be
held ut Flint June 1928, and large mum.
Der of them are expected to be present.
The body of an unknown man was found
in the foods about six miles from Muske.
gon the other evening by children picking
berries The man had been dead about
two weeks.
The Standard oil company owns three
acres Of land at Kalamazoo upon which il
proposes to build cooper shop, an oil
storage and barreling concern, and side
tracks, tanks, etc.
Thos. Rowe, brakeman on the Detroit
Bay City & Alpena railroad log train, fell
under the cars at Black River the other
day, and was instantly killed. His head
was severed from the body.
The salt block at Ludington owned by
Buffers & Peters is turning out GEO barrell
of salt per day, in spite Of the inter-stat,
commerce law and the low price of salt
Detroit parties have bought so acres o.
land within the corporated limits of Eas
Jordan, and will construct some trou
ponds and summer cottages thereon. A
fine trout brook runs through the property
Gen. Alger, Senator Stockbridge and o
II. johnson of Racine, Wis.,, have ARRANGED
trip to California next fall, when the,
will look after their red wood timber land